Hi! I’m Matt Layman.

I am a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Included Health.

I like to teach others about writing good software while streaming on YouTube and am committed to helping my local community grow its tech skills by volunteering as a meetup organizer for Python Frederick.

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#pytest
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Announcing luatest: A Lua test runner inspired by pytest

luatest is a brand new test runner that is heavily inspired by pytest. It’s got the speed you love about Lua with the DX you love from pytest.

#Python
#Django
#SaaS
#email
#accounts

Accounts and Email - Building SaaS with Python and Django #164

In this episode, I planned to do the work of sending email prompts for the journal to users. Along the path, we realized that the Account model was missing, so I stopped to build that out …

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#Django
#models
#graphviz
#admin

First Major Model - Building SaaS with Python and Django #163

In this episode, we got to work on the core modeling for the application. I started by adding some visualization tooling to see the models in the system, then got to modeling of the primary …

#Python
#data
#realtime
#streaming
#SQL
#data lake
#data warehouse

Python + Upsolver: Simplified Realtime Data Workflows

One of the powerful things about Python is its ability to connect disparate tools into one common integrated development experience. In this talk, we’ll explore how to create and run a near …